Music lovers, and especially Bach aficionados, will have a rare opportunity on Sunday, Nov. 13, when noted keyboardist Carsten Schmidt plays the whole of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, ...

I don’t think the scholars have yet argued that, among the ear-stretching range of moods and effects encompassed across these 24 pieces, comes a spooky anticipation of Seattle grunge. Listening to ...

Christophe Rousset, a remarkable harpsichordist and conductor who occupies a place of high honor among Baroque-music interpreters, scores a triumph with this magisterial reading of one of the ...

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: Book 2 BWV870-893 Aaron Pilsan, Piano A native of Dornbirn in the Austrian Vorarlberg, pianist Aaron Pilsan has a robust online ...

Jazzing the classics is something that has been done many times, usually in ways that trivialize both kinds of music. But because pianist-composer John Lewis` love of Bach is genuine and linked to his ...

The recorded repertory of the prolific German harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Staier spans the Baroque through Brahms. His Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was released in November 2021. For ...

I don’t think that Sviatoslav Richter, still less Sir András Schiff, would have reminded me of Kurt Cobain at this point. Not even, maybe, Edwin Fischer, whose pioneering 1930s recordings set a ...